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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: AdMuncher 20% discount code (advertisement blocker)

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 10:53 AM »

thanks josh, that sounds great!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: v2.00.09 up

« Last post by mouser on September 10, 2005, 04:42 AM »

now that is strange..
the only reason im not responding more robustly to the report of these issues is because i've just about resigned myself to replacing that thumbnail file browsing component with another.

but it is very strange that it seems its starting to act up now and was working before?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Preview of mask to come

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 10:06 PM »

the sample frame+mask combo shows the basic purpose of it - it allows you to make certain regions of the image see-through to the background.

with just a picture frame, you cannot create transparent areas of the image, because all transparency in the picture frame image shows through to the original picture.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: v2.00.09 up

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 09:59 PM »

if you go into the thumbnail explorer panel and hit F5 does it make any difference?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: v2.00.09 up

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 09:59 PM »

thanks carol, i am going to look into it and try to fix it.
if you find out any new clues, like if it happens in some cases and not others, let me know.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: v2.00.09 up

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 03:42 PM »

are all thumbnails showing strangely?
or just certain kinds?

i woudln't stress it too much for now, i'm going to try to replace that component in the near future.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug: F&R using BaseURL instead of URL when launching web shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 03:18 PM »

my pleasure,  thanks for the bug report

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Screenshot Captor / v2.00.09 up

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 02:53 PM »

v2.00.09

https://www.donation...ScreenshotCaptor.exe

fixes access errors due to frames
includes sample frame+mask combo.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - License file

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 02:05 PM »

Let's remember, uwe took the time to register at the forum, and took the time to post an explanation for what upset him.
I asked people to post their feelings about this - so he was just doing what i asked, and i appreciate that he took the time to make a public post about it.
And his follow up post was very respectful, so i welcome his comments and i appreciate that you took the time to post them uwe.


sentinel, regarding calling it donationware, i think that would be reasonable too, although i have a slightly unconvential view of what the definition of donationware should be.  i have written elsewhere on this forum this:

"like i was saying there is some real "muddlement" in the definition of donationware.
most people seem to refer to donationware any software whose author asks users to consider making a donation.
this seems to me totally useless as a definition.  it says nothing about the program at all.
to me it makes more sense to say a program is donationware if it REQUIRES a donation but the donation amount is left up to user.
if it has no restrictions at all then its freeware, regardless of whether author asks for donations or not."

but i do recognize that the approach we are taking here is more annoying than what people normally call donationware, and it might be clearer to call it donationware, or "registerware".

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Preview of mask to come

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 12:15 PM »

carol, any chance you were playing with frames at some point in the session before it happened?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Preview of mask to come

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 11:58 AM »

ok i got an access violation error too, so we are all getting it.. now i will try to find and fix it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Coming soon.. Arrows, callouts, textboxes

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 10:54 AM »

that's a very interesting idea rjbull, but not so easy to achieve.. i will think about it though.
right now you can use the tool to blur everything outside of a rectangular region, but it would be nice to be able to say blur everything not covered by an object.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Preview of mask to come

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 10:51 AM »

remember there are masks and also picture frames.
picture frames can have transparent areas where the image shows through and then elsewhere they can be anything.
masks are just gray and indicate where there should be backround and no image.

you can also combine both in one thing, by making like
frame.png and frame.png.mask
and putting it in the fames directory.

i don't have an example of it yet but it would be perfect for those "tear" or "ragged edge" effects you have shown.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - License file

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 08:32 AM »

most freeware you don't have to do anything, you just download and it runs forever with no annoying nag screens.
so i understand uwe being frustrated.

and like i say, this is an experiment - maybe we will stop doing it after a while if it is not helpful.

i just ask people to understand that we are trying to find a good solution to encouraging donations.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - License file

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 08:29 AM »

im happy to make custom licenses for any member.
i can customize username, email, company name, licensetype string.
if you want me to make one for your best friend, family, etc., just email me with details

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Do you want to see F&R with optional skins?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 07:03 AM »

there are enough users of f&r, i'm not trying to pull in more donators with a feature that would upset current users.
i'm really more interested in existing users, whether they would like a skinned appearance or not.
if they don't want it, then i'm not gonna add it.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshot Captor - License file

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 06:12 AM »

just to make sure we are all understanding the same thing when you say "demo version"

after you apply the license,
the program will not nag you again and  you will not see any messages, and there are no limitations, for 6 months.

after 6 months, or any time before that, you can go to the license key page https://www.donationcoder.com/Keys
and it will last another 6 months. you can do this forever.

so its a full version of the program after you apply the license, with no more nag screens.  it's just that it requires you to come back to get a new key every 6 months.

like i say, this is really an experiment, if too many people don't like it and it doesnt help get many more donations (which it isn't so far), then we will remove it (and maybe try something else?)

thanks for being understanding.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Do you want to see F&R with optional skins?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 05:43 AM »

i tend to agree with you kevin.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Error - Access violation

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 05:26 AM »

that explorer panel is really starting to bother me and it may finally be time to replace it.
question: i wonder if this doesnt have to do with those bad tiff files.
can you try deleting the tiff files and changing to a different capture format, see if that solves your problems?
would be very useful for me to know.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: 2.0 Beta problem: cannot find Chinese fonts in Text objects

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 05:23 AM »

surely snagit can do this, can't it?

the problem is not listing the fonts, i could fix that - the problem is that the graphics drawing component that draws the text cannot.
i might try to fix it, or else i could make a kind of fix - i can make a special kind of graphics object which is really just text, but remember the text, so you would be able to edit chinese/japanese/etc text and it would convert it back and forth between bitmap and text.  actually maybe this would be also useful as a standalone tiny util, to let you type in some text and then convert it to a bitmap for use in other programs.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Suggestion for forum navigation

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 05:19 AM »

that sounds like a good idea, i will add it.

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Find And Run Robot / Do you want to see F&R with optional skins?

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 03:27 AM »

I'm curious about how people feel about adding skins to the F&R main screen; user could then choose between current default appearance and a bunch of skins.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug: F&R using BaseURL instead of URL when launching web shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 03:23 AM »

interesting page on the format of url shortcut files:
http://www.cyanwerks...file-format-url.html

regarding baseurl: "The purpose of these extra fields is probably for the browser to figure out what HTML documents were loaded in each frame, since the main URL tends to not record the state of its framesets."

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Possible bug: F&R using BaseURL instead of URL when launching web shortcuts

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 03:21 AM »

john, can you try the latest version and see if it's fixed:
https://www.donation.../FindAndRunRobot.exe

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Living Room / Re: Lifehacker asks what are your favorite utilities..

« Last post by mouser on September 09, 2005, 03:12 AM »

that's why we have this section:

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